If you watch your favorite videos on YouTube, you’ll notice something a little different. There’s a tab on the bottom-right hand corner that says “1911”. If you click on it, the video takes you back in time to the turn of the century, with a grainy, yellowish-tone complete with music straight from the flapper era. The site has even changed its logo to YouTube 1911, and the Spotlight is 1911 Viral Videos: One hundred years ago today. (via Fox40news)
For those who haven’t seen the ever-so-popular “Ching Chong Asians in the Library” by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace video that’s been trending on YouTube, here is a really cool backlash music video by this kid Jimmy. So good!
Old Spice’s “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” campaign has gotten a lot of press lately. Now you can tell @OldSpice your thoughts on Twitter—and get this—the Old Spice guy will answers your replies in a YouTube video. He’ll also answer questions from Yahoo Answers, comment on posts and we’re imagining respond to just about anything posted about Old Spice on the Internet. Above is the reply the Old Spice guy left for Digg’s Kevin Rose that went up earlier today. Fantastic stuff.
(via thenextweb)
DJ Pogo takes original movie footage/sounds and remixes it. Check out “Upular” from Pixar’s “Up.” Also, check out other video’s on Pogo’s YouTube page here.
A serie of animated optical illusions. All created from scratch using photoshop and Lightwave 3D.
At this YouTube site for Visa created out of AKQA, visitors are encouraged to submit a cheer and join in a massive World Cup celebration and also search for a Golden Ticket for their chance to attend the 2014 World Cup.
(via @creativitymag)
MIA’s new, controversial video “Born Free” released on her website Monday, and has already been banned on YouTube for graphic violence.
The 10-minute video, directed by Romain Gavras, follows a SWAT-like team as it rounds up a band of redheads from a housing project and proceeds to kill them one by one.
The most graphic scenes include a young boy getting shot in the head — reminiscent of Eddie Adams’ Pultizer Prize-winning photo of a suspected Viet Cong leader’s street side execution — and one prisoner getting blown to pieces in slow motion by a bomb.
(via newyorkdailynews)
Creative office environment by Jessica Findley. A fun stop motion video including printable paper, document folder, index book and ring binder.
(via welovestopmotion)
Based on the popular Superbowl 2010 commercial, Google created the Google Search Stories Video Creator. It lets you create your own search story and share it with the rest of the world.
Old Spice & Wieden +Kennedy continue to push comedy in their advertising. Watch “Blocker,” “Punch,” and “Flex”
